Preview — Liberty Enlightening the World — The Talking Hologram Book · Told by Lady Liberty Herself

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Meet the Book

A stage plate from the book — the statue's making in Paris

LIBERTY

Liberty introduces her book Her own voice for this preview — 36 seconds

Now hear the book itself — A Word from Victor Hugo — and the Sculptor The book’s own first chapter, from its first words — Hugo’s dying note to Bartholdi, then the sculptor’s own account begins · 90 seconds

It opens with a dying poet’s last written words. Victor Hugo sent them to the sculptor for this very book: “Form to the sculptor is all and yet nothing. It is nothing without the spirit; with the idea it is everything.” Then Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi himself takes up the story — how a dinner-table remark in France became the tallest statue in the world.

Press Next to step into the middle of the book — where France hands her over, and she crosses the ocean in crates.

SOURCE — in the open. The words are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s own: The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (1885), written by the sculptor and published for the benefit of the pedestal fund — public domain in the United States, reproduced complete and unaltered — together with the American Committee’s official inauguration volume (1887), also public domain. Only the “By the Numbers” page near the end of the book is modern writing, and it is labeled as such inside the book.

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From the Middle — The Voyage of the Isère

A second stage plate from the book — the statue's making in Paris

LIBERTY

Paris, the Fourth of July, 1884 — and the Voyage of the Isère From the middle of the book — France hands her over, and she crosses the Atlantic in 350 pieces packed in 214 crates · 90 seconds of the full narration

On the Fourth of July, 1884, in a Paris courtyard, France formally presented the finished statue to America. Then the workmen who had built her took her apart — every copper sheet numbered, 350 pieces in 214 crates — and the French frigate Isère carried her across the Atlantic to a pedestal that American pennies, gathered by Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper campaign, had finally paid for. Ahead in the full book: the dedication day itself, in the very words spoken — Evarts presenting her, President Grover Cleveland accepting her, and Chauncey Depew’s great oration as the flag fell from her face.

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What’s Inside

Liberty Enlightening the World — The Talking Hologram Book cover

The sculptor’s own book, complete and unaltered — Bartholdi’s The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (1885): the history of the French-American Union, the method of execution, the work in the Paris atelier, and the building of the pedestal. 20,191 words of period text in all, across fourteen chapters.
The dedication in the very words spoken — from the American Committee’s official inauguration volume (1887): the Paris presentation of July 4, 1884, the voyage of the Isère, Evarts’ presentation address, President Grover Cleveland’s acceptance, and Chauncey M. Depew’s commemorative oration.
2 hours and 4 minutes of narration — Lady Liberty herself stands in the corner of the stage and tells her own story, from the first idea in France to Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” which closes the book.
Eleven period plates — Albert Fernique’s construction photographs of 1883 and the period art of her making and unveiling, standing in the reading room where each moment is told, to read along with the full text.
A period music bed — La Marseillaise and Hail, Columbia, from public-domain period recordings, played softly beneath the voice.
“By the Numbers” — one modern page, plainly labeled: 305 feet from the ground to the torch, 225 tons in all, Gustave Eiffel’s iron framework beneath a copper skin no thicker than two pennies.
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The texts in this book are public domain in the United States: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (1885), and the American Committee’s Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (1887), reproduced exactly as printed, complete and unaltered. The pictures are public-domain period works (Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons). The “By the Numbers” page is modern editorial writing and is labeled as such. The hologram edition — the narration, the talking stage, the assembly — is © ai10forever 2026 · Editor: Franklin Langston. An independent production, not affiliated with the National Park Service or any government body.

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